Hello all

I'm in the process of a major revision/extension of the lingvoj ontology [1]
Basically this vocabulary is providing and will provide more in the new version ways to describe the various use of languages by people and organizations, geographical scope and status, usage in documents or during events.

In the current version, all properties of which range is the Language class are defined as subproperties (specializations) of dcterms:language. But the domain of such properties are not (only) information resources or documents, since they define e.g., the level of fluency of a person in a language (understood, read, written), the languages spoken in a country (official or not), the communication language(s) of an agent, the official languages used during an event etc.

Although the range of such properties is the same as the one of dcterms:language (dcterms:LinguisticSystem), and the domain of this property is left open has many other ones in DC terms, I wonder if it's not stretching a bit too much the initial intent of dcterms:language to declare it as the superproperty of all those.

Thoughts?

[1] http://www.lingvoj.org/ontology

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